Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
SHOW GALLERY: THE LONG BEACH SWAP MEET – DECEMBER 2011
While most of the country is feeling the cold of winter, the Bang Shifters of SoCal just keep right on cruising in the warm weather. It’s OK to hate them cause in the first eleven days of...
NMRA ANNOUNCES CREATION OF COYOTE STOCK – SPEC ENGINE DRAG CLASS
We didn’t plan for this to be Ford Coyote V8 Monday here at BangShift, but it seems to be shaping up that way! On Friday, the NMRA announced the creation of the “Coyote Stock” drag...
PROJECT UPDATE: PROGRESS ON THE FORD COYOTE POWERED THUNDERBIRD BUILD
Last weekend I loaded the boys into Brutus the wrecker and headed down to Tube Chassis Designz to catch up on the very cool classic Thunderbird build Jon and John are working on. The last time we...
EVENT COVERAGE: MOONEYES X-MAS PARTY SHOW AND DRAGS 2011
Every December here in Sunny So Cal, every car junkie worth his salt is looking forward to the Mooneyes X-Mas Party Show and Drags, and this year did not dissappoint. Beautiful whether in the...
THE PARTING SHIFT: A SUPER STOCK 289CI 1965 MUSTANG BUZZSAW!
It has been weeks since we last ran the weekly homage to manual transmission prowess called, “The Parting Shift”. There have been shows, live broadcasts, and holiday weekends in the way...
Mountain Motor: A Closer Look at the 1005ci – 2100hp Naturally Aspirated Monster From Sonny Leonard
Of all the engines at the 2011 PRI show, none were spoken about more or with more wonderment than this one. This is a motor that Sonny Leonard Racing Engines calls, “The Godfather” and...
CAPTION THIS PHOTO: BERSERKO BOB PROVES ONCE AND FOR ALL HE IS THE STRONGEST ANNOUNCER IN THE WORLD
Lots of stuff has changed in the sport of drag racing over the years but one thing remains constant, rain outs suck. Well, they suck because no racing will happen, but if they happen early enough in...
Epic Wheelstand Video: One For the Record Book at Sanair Dragway in Canada
This is the wheelstand video to end wheelstand videos. Personally, my favorite before I laid eyes on this one was Steve Blue’s epic wheels up run from the Byron Power Wheelstanding World...
New BS Shirts for Sale – Just in Time for the Holidays!
After muddling along for a couple of years with our standard “logo” shirts, Chad and I hooked up with proud BangShift sponsor Snooky’s and enlisted their services in coming up with...
Amazing Find: An All Wheel Drive 1965 Mustang Built in 1965!
The famed Irish engineer and businessman Harry Ferguson is best known for creating the modern farm tractor as we know it. Ford’s amazingly popular N series of tractors were based on lots of...
Yellowstone Drag Strip Sold to Local Family – Racing to Continue at Facility in 2012!
Some great news to follow up on our blog item regarding the sale of Yellowstone Drag Strip. Normally when a strip goes up for auction there’s all kinds of wheeling and dealing behind the scenes...
eBay Find: The Weirdest Project Ever – Seriously – A Dodge Truck Looking – GM FWD Chopper Hauler
Since BangShift began, I have written literally thousands of items here on the blog. We’ve profiled hundreds of bizarre cars and trucks off of eBay and other places, but not a damn thing I have...
Incredible Photo: 68- Year Old Woman Plows Into Rear of School Bus, Amazingly Not Dead But Mustang Is!
Another day, another Ford Mustang that died in spectacular fashion, while apparently protecting (to the best of the car’s ability) the driver. In this case it was a 68-year old woman on Long...
Driveway Tech: Battling the Stuck Rings on the Monte Carlo – Round 2
In our continuing attempts to be cheapskates and fix our oil burning ’73 Monte Carlo’s 350 spending as little as possible; we decided to try a tried and true solution to our...